People brave deserts to come here because life is a little bit more tolerable in the imperial core [1] than in the regions that the core extracts natural resour

People brave deserts to come here because life is a little bit more tolerable in the imperial core [1] than in the regions that the core extracts natural resources and cheap human labor from. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries